Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-09-08
DAILY HERALD.
THE GRAND HIGHWAY.
A More Than Royal March OF
Triumph.

Irlumphs
History has gilded with glowing
colors the triumphal marches OF ori.
entail and European kings and con
uuerors. Their routes were short and
snowy. A march of one hundred OIL
two hundred miles was considered a
marvel of greatness and glory. Over
these distances which required weeks
of toilsome marching, modern loco
motive carries long train of palace
cars with passengers in less than hall
a day.
Few people are aware of the magni-
tude of the grand excursions now
planned between Los Angeles and
Boston. They are on scale of vast
ness that puts antiquity in the shade
forever and ever, amen. The first OF
the Raymond vacation series in
new palace cars will leave Bos-
ton next Monday for Los An
geles. 1t will come via the
great suspension bridge so that visitors
can see the glory of Niagara Falls,
stopping over awhile in Great Chicago,
thence on to beautiful Milwaukee,
where a royal drive will take place,
and on the grand train will come to
the charming Dells of Wisconsin,
where steamboat ride will take place
in that romantic region, and the fol-
lowing day the party will follow the
west bank of the Mississippi to Min
neapolis and st. Paul, with a side trip
to beautiful Fort Smelling, and sailing
on Minnetonka lake. The beautiful
train will then dart northward to the
great Northern Pacific railway and
thence to the wonderland OF the world,
the Yellowstone National Park and
the wierd bad Lands" 1t will pass
along the bloody region where Custer
and his troops were ambushed and
which our own General Miles cleared
of the redskins in 1877. In the land
of geysers of the Yellowstone the party
will linger long to view its remarkable
features. scalding waters and boiling
''Paint Pots" For ten days the trav-
elers will ramble in this land of Won
ders and then hasten on into Oregon
and Washington Territory to Tacoma
and Puget Sound, thence by steamer
to Victoria, B. c., and return, and
thence to Portland by rail. The CO.
lumbia is assembled by steamer to
Dalles City and back to Portland.
From Portland the party will wheel
southwark towards Los Angeles, pass
ing by the eternal snow of Shasta in
a curve line that gives the features Of
nearly all sides of the cool-headed
giant. The train will come through
the northern citrus belt, where the
orange groves exist on paper in Won
drous richness. After visiting beauti
full Monterey the party will roll te
Yosemite and view that grand aggre
cation of wondrous grandeur and sub.
Unity.
The great granary of the State, the
San joaquin valley, will be passed
through; the romantic mountain pas
sage to the desert; the rush through
the cactus plains will be made with
the swiftness OF the wind, and the tor
tuous and beautiful Soledad descend
ed and the train thrust into eterna
night while it passes with a suller
roar through the San Fernando noun
tains and enters into the eternal sum
mer of Los Angeles county Novembe
list, to enjoy the delights that are to
be found on seashore, mountain, cit.
or plain, on the fifty-first day of the
excursion. A week will be spent il
visiting the places of interest in Los
Angeles before the travellers turn
homeward.
Those who are familiar with
the geography and topography
of the route need not be told
that such a trip is grand be-
yond description and is only possible
in the United States OF America with
Los Angeles as the focal point. All
these grand excursions have this city
for their objective point. The visitors
will find the city delightful and stead
lily and grandly increasing in adorn-
ments of elegance and beauty. The
trip with all its side journeys from
Boston to Los Angeles will measure
about $500 miles, in which an amount
of scenery, rich, grand, gloomy ant
peculiar" will be seen that can no
where else be found on the face Of
the globe. 1t reveals all the products o
the northern temperate, and the
semi-tropic zones Of the earth, shows
the anatomy OF the continent and the
great volcanic forces that prevail
therein.
The homeward journey will con
sumo about $500 miles more, making
over 5000 miles in the circuit. Sucl
trip is grand in conception and in
spring in the knowledge and pleasure
it imparts. Such journeys in othel
lands are impossible, and are consid
cred incredible. 1t is hoped tina
while these tourists are lettering anC
enjoying their long-drawn journey tina
the good people OF Los Angeles viii
clothe the city in beautiful attire, anc
show them that all their dreams of q
land of beauty and comfort have al
last been fulfilled. Such a trip, il
such style and with such appoint
ments, is deserving mention in his
tory, and the HERALD takes pleasure
in making il historic